Silopi

The hottest day in Türkiye in 2022 was on July 15 in the southeastern province of Şırnak's Silopi district at 47.9 degrees, the Turkish State Meteorological Service has said in its latest report.

The bureau published a report indicating meteorological extreme values of the province and districts in 2022.

Turkish authorities have averted a major terrorist attack by defusing a powerful bomb planted at a courthouse.

More than half a dozen suspects have been arrested in connection with the foiled bombing plot at a district court in the southeastern Şırnak province.

Nine people have been killed and 28 have been wounded in a bus accident in the southeastern district of Silopi in Şırnak, Doğan News Agency reported on Jan. 12.

Iraqi soldiers joined Turkish troops for military exercises in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq on Sept. 26 as the two countries coordinate steps in response to the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum.

Turkey and Iraq will launch a joint military exercise on the Turkish-Iraqi border on Sept. 26 following an independence referendum in northern Iraq, the Turkish military said late on Sept. 25.   
    
Turkey started its military manoeuvers in the southeastern district of Silopi on Sept. 18, a week ahead of the referendum on independence in northern Iraq.        

Turkey will reinforce its troop deployments in the border town of Silopi amid a possible Shiite offensive to liberate Tal Afar, which has a sizeable ethnic Turkmen population and is considered a sensitive target for Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has praised teachers working in Turkey's eastern and southeastern provinces, who have been impacted by the renewed conflict between the country's security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in recent months.

A "great reconstruction" effort is set to begin for homes and other buildings damaged in clashes between security forces and militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern district of Silopi, Turkey's prime minister has said.

The Turkish government has estimated that ongoing military operations against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the districts of Cizre in ??rnak and the district of Sur in Diyarbak?r in Southeast Anatolia would be completed within days or weeks.

Residents of the southeastern district of Silopi, who were forced to flee their homes during a 36-day curfew imposed to conduct military operations, have faced ruined homes amid a general scene of desolation.